It’s been about two decades for Nas in this rap game, but he hasn’t lost his best-selling touch. Tenth LP Life is Good, by most estimations his best effort in ages and one of the best rap albums of the year, takes Nasir Jones back to the top of the album charts this week, with sales of 149k. That’s nearly 40k less than previous album Hip-Hop is Dead managed, but it’s a good deal more than early projections, which saw the album moving somewhere in the low 100ks, had indicated, and it’s good enough to get Nas his fifth #1—sixth if you count collaboration The Firm: The Album.
Below Nas, we have a bunch of re-runs, a Kidz Bop and a hilarious Amazon fluke. The re-runs are led by Zac Brown Band’s Uncaged, down one to #2 this week, and Frank Ocean’s Channel Orange, falling to #4, largely thanks to the $2.99 copies of the album sold on Amazon.com being too cheap to count towards the album’s chart tally. The Kidz Bop is 22, which debuts at #3 with 64k sold—the impressive 15th top ten entry in the series. And the hilarious fluke comes courtesy of none other than Phil Collins, whose Hits compilation sells an improbable 40k copies this week thanks to being sold for 99 cents on Amazon, marking a new chart peak for the triple-platinum, 14-year-old hits compilation.
Next week: Indie releases from Passion Pit and Gaslight Anthem square off with more big-budget releases from Love and Theft and Jennifer Lopez (hits compilation). Also, is Adele still rattling around there somewhere? Can’t count her out.
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